“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”

Jane Austen
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“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

Jane Austen
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“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”

Jane Austen
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low; the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

Jane Austen
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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

Jane Austen
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“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

Jane Austen
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A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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